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Three writ­ers sup­port­ed by the Grad­u­ate Center’s Leon Levy Cen­ter for Biog­ra­phy have earned major hon­ors this year, includ­ing a Guggen­heim Fel­low­ship, a Pulitzer Prize final­ist cita­tion, and a Plutarch Award, one of biography’s lead­ing inter­na­tion­al awards.

The John Simon Guggen­heim Memo­r­i­al Foun­da­tion select­ed Iversen as part of its 101^st class of fel­lows, announced April 14. The foun­da­tion rec­og­nized her in the biog­ra­phy cat­e­go­ry for both her past achieve­ments and the promise of future work.

“At this…

Kris­ten has been cho­sen as the sev­enth Leon Levy/​Alfred P. Sloan Fel­low for a biog­ra­phy on a fig­ure from sci­ence. The Leon Levy Cen­ter for Biog­ra­phy is host­ed by the Grad­u­ate Cen­ter at the City Uni­ver­si­ty of New York — and generously…

Kris­ten has been award­ed a Nation­al Endow­ment for the Human­i­ties grant to sup­port research for an upcom­ing biog­ra­phy of inven­tor Niko­la Tes­la. This project will explore Tes­la’s fas­ci­nat­ing rela­tion­ships with promi­nent Gild­ed Age fig­ures includ­ing John Jacob Astor, Mark Twain…

“Think like a poet, write like a nov­el­ist, tell the truth.” What does this mean, and what is Lit­er­ary Non­fic­tion, any­way? Let’s jump into this genre and every­thing that makes it so unique and so exciting.

On Jan­u­ary 15, 2022, Kris­ten received a spe­cial acknowl­edge­ment in New York from the Tes­la Sci­ence Foun­da­tion for eight years of research into the life of Niko­la Tes­la (book com­ing soon!).

A Tele­vi­sion project is in devel­op­ment with Blum­house that includes Full Body Bur­den, inspired by Kris­ten Iversen’s book, which tells the true sto­ry of a dead­ly gov­ern­ment secret hid­den in plain sight: the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant just outside…

By Jane Mar­cel­lus | Decem­ber 3, 2020

In a 1998 exper­i­ment con­duct­ed by the Weiz­mann Insti­tute of Sci­ence in Israel, researchers work­ing in quan­tum the­o­ry con­clud­ed that the sim­ple act of observ­ing a beam of elec­trons changes them. Con­verse­ly, what…

The record­ing of the Zoom webi­nar held Novem­ber 6^th, 2020 to launch Kris­ten Iversen’s and David Lazar’s new book Don’t Look Now: Things We Wish We Had­n’t Seen.

The full 2‑hour zoom webi­nar for Doom with a View is now available.

“Iversen and Lazar’s col­lec­tion will appeal to read­ers drawn to how lit­er­a­ture can be used to con­front, and pos­si­bly get past, dam­ag­ing memories.”

“The book has been cho­sen by more than 30 uni­ver­si­ties around the coun­try for their Com­mon Read Pro­grams and has been used to teach ethics in gov­ern­ment and policy.”